Anniston Set to Finish Chemical Arms Disposal by 2010

All chemical weapons stored at the U.S. Army chemical weapons depot in Anniston, Ala., should be destroyed on schedule by 2010, the Associated Press reported today (see GSN, June 23).

The depot’s present stockpile consists of 4.1 million pounds of sarin, VX and blister agent, the AP said. Disposal of sarin-filled rockets should finish this year, to be followed by work on VX munitions in 2006 and then the blister agents, according to the AP.

The United States and Russia are not expected to meet 2007 or 2012 Chemical Weapons Convention deadlines to eliminate their full chemical weapons stores, according to a U.S. General Accounting Office estimate (Associated Press/Tuscaloosa News, July 19).

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